Nico Rosberg

Mercedes mystified by lack of race pace

Barcelona: Mercedes urged their many Formula One technical boffins to "think outside the box" and consider the unconsidered after a Spanish Grand Prix that left the team baffled by their cars' lack of race pace. Despite scorching to their third pole position in a row, with Germany's Nico Rosberg notching up his second in succession, Mercedes flopped when it mattered most at the Circuit de Catalunya.

Lewis Hamilton went from second to 12th, in what he said was his worst race for a very long time, while Rosberg finished sixth. How to manage and extract performance from the Pirelli tyres is the conundrum and Mercedes, who have a stellar line-up of senior technical figures, planned to throw all their brainpower into finding an answer.

"Generally what you can say is that the car is a quick car," Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff told reporters after emerging from a two-hour post-race technical debrief at the circuit. This is not about a car or a team struggling with lacking pace, a car where you end up 15th on Saturday and then 12th or 16th on Sunday. It is a car that is tremendously fast on the Saturday and has real speed. And then on Sunday we are not able to manage the car with the tyres. One could say 'Did the others go even much more conservative in terms of race setup?' I don't think so. It's something else and I think it requires out of the box thinking," added 

Nico Rosberg takes pole position; Hamilton 2nd

Barcelona: Mercedes will start the Spanish Grand Prix from the front row after Nico Rosberg had the fastest qualifying time ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton on Saturday. While Hamilton had the fastest times in the first two qualifying sessions, Rosberg edged him to win the pole position in 1 minute, 20.718 seconds. "The race is very long, and to win it's not good enough to start from pole - you...  

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg fastest in opening practice at Shanghai

Shanghai: Mercedes pair Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton set the fastest times in Friday's opening practice session for the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix. Rosberg, who won here last year for his sole F1 victory, set a time of 1 minute, 36.717 seconds around the Shanghai International Circuit, putting him almost half a second ahead of teammate Hamilton, who is the only two-time winner of this grand prix. Red Bull...  

Formula One: Team orders fallout hangs over China

Shanghai: Memories of China would have given Nico Rosberg plenty of extra motivation on his return to Shanghai this weekend, even without a 'team orders' furore that blew up at the last race in Malaysia. While Red Bull caught the full force of the storm at Sepang, with triple world champion Sebastian Vettel winning after ignoring instructions from his pitwall to stay behind team mate Mark Webber, Mercedes were buffeted...  

Ross Brawn says team orders went against his nature

London: Lewis Hamilton has never asked for favoured treatment at Mercedes and the team orders that helped him to third place at the Malaysian Grand Prix were made only out of necessity, according to principal Ross Brawn. Brawn told Sky Sports F1 in an interview that both Hamilton, the 2008 Formula One world champion, and German team-mate Nico Rosberg were told to hold position purely because of a fuel issue....  

Racing against Hamilton will make me stronger, says Rosberg

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McLaren make woeful start at Melbourne

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Mercedes bullish despite glitches at Australian Grand Prix

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Rosberg wraps up F1 testing with fastest lap

The German's time of one minute 20.130 seconds was comfortably quicker than team-mate Lewis Hamilton's best lap of 1:20.558. ...  

Hamilton fastest in penultimate day of F1 testing

Hamilton took advantage of the first blue skies and dry track at the Catalunya Circuit by putting in a flying lap of 1 minute, 20.558 seconds. ...  

Rosberg fastest in test, Alonso tries new Ferrari

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Indian GP: F1 buzz starts to build

Drivers from different teams are in the city, attending promotional events and also preparing for the upcoming Indian GP. ...

Experts show confidence in second Indian Grand Prix

CNN-IBN's Formula One experts discuss the prospects of the second edition of the Indian Grand Prix. ...

Schumacher, Rosberg looking forward to Indian GP

New Delhi: Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg still remember the 'enthusiasm' and 'friendliness' shown by India last year and the two Mercedes drivers are gearing up for more interesting experience in the country, which hosts the next Formula One race on October 28. Schumacher, who will bid adieu to the sport for the second time after this season, had finished fifth just ahead of Rosberg in the last edition, won...  

Rosberg helped Hamilton make his mind up

Suzuka: Having got the better of seven times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg is hardly quaking in his racing boots at the prospect of teaming up with Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes. The two are old friends, teenage team-mates in karting where they dreamed of one day driving together in grands prix, and Rosberg even gave the 2008 world champion the benefit of his advice before Hamilton decided...  

Rosberg struggling with body clock ahead of Singapore

Singapore: Nico Rosberg has spent hours in Mercedes' futuristic Formula One simulator preparing for Singapore's tricky street circuit but he still found it hard on Wednesday to adjust his body clock to simple things like lunch. The German, like everyone else in the paddock, has no choice but to stay on European time and become a night owl ahead of the weekend's grand prix under the floodlights in the southeast...  

Schumacher fastest in 1st practice at Italian GP

Monza, Italy: Michael Schumacher had the fastest time in the first practice session at the Italian Grand Prix in glorious conditions at Monza on Friday. Schumacher posted a time of 1 minute 25.422 seconds in his Mercedes, edging Jenson Button by 0.301 seconds. Nico Rosberg was third. Championship leader Fernando Alonso was fourth fastest. The Ferrari driver had a technical problem six minutes from the end of the session. Alonso...